Senior Software Engineering Manager, Supervisory Control Platform Team

Overview

Auto Store holds a simple yet powerful vision: to store and move things for everyone, everywhere. Auto Store uses advanced software to automate and orchestrate order fulfillment, delivering faster delivery with minimal environmental impact. The company operates globally with systems in 60 countries and emphasizes listening to its community to innovate for complex needs.

This opportunity is for a senior people leadership role in software engineering, titled Senior Software Engineering Manager, Supervisory Control Platform. The role is accountable for software delivery execution, team leadership, engineering process maturity, and cross‑functional alignment for the platform. You will lead software teams responsible for delivering the Auto Store SW platform and end‑to‑end connectivity from on‑premise systems to cloud services.

The role ensures clear priorities, predictable execution, high‑quality engineering practices, and effective collaboration across Product, Architecture, Controls, Cloud, and integration partners. This role reports to the SVP of Software Engineering and partners with Controls teams, Warehouse Execution and Management Software teams, Product, and integration partners.

• Lead, coach, and develop software engineers and team leads; build a high‑performing team culture with clear ownership, accountability, and growth plans.
• Own delivery planning, prioritization, execution tracking, and risk management across platform initiatives, ensuring commitments are realistic, visible, and delivered with quality.
• Establish and improve planning, estimation, sprint execution, release readiness, quality gates, and operational review processes.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Controls, QA, Dev Ops, and customer‑facing teams to align roadmap priorities, dependencies, integration plans, and delivery milestones.
• Drive disciplined execution across requirements clarity, technical readiness, test coverage, release planning, defect management, and production readiness.
• Oversee software design, development, and execution for the Auto Store platform, ensuring scalable architecture, clear engineering ownership, and alignment with product and customer deployment needs.
• Lead execution for secure, reliable, and observable connectivity between on‑premise warehouse systems and cloud‑based platform services, including integration, deployment, and operational readiness considerations.
• Work closely with architects and senior engineers to ensure technical direction, design decisions, and engineering standards are understood, planned, and executed effectively by the teams.

• At least 10+ years in software engineering with 3+ years in a software development management or engineering leadership role.
• Proven experience managing software teams responsible for complex platform, middleware, distributed systems, or operational software delivery.
• Strong track record in execution management, delivery planning, dependency management, engineering process improvement, and stakeholder communication.
• Experience leading teams that deliver APIs, integration contracts, backend services, or platform capabilities across independently owned systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms and hybrid architecture, including secure connectivity between on‑premise systems and cloud services.
• Ability to balance technical depth, people leadership, execution discipline, and business priorities in a fast‑paced engineering environment.
• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• Warehouse automation / robotics / intralogistics background (WES/WMS/WCS, Auto Store, ASRS, or comparable).
• Experience managing teams working across independently owned software and control‑system components.
• Track record improving team execution, engineering processes, delivery predictability, and release quality at scale.
• Warehouse logistics, automation, or intralogistics domain experience (ideally with 2–3 years of relevant exposure).
• Strong technical understanding of distributed systems, control‑platform architecture, APIs, messaging, data contracts, fault tolerance, and…